WORLD : $900,000 Battering-Ram Heist
Thieves used a three-ton truck to smash the window of one of London’s most exclusive jewelers today and escaped with a diamond necklace reported to be worth almost $900,000.
The thieves struck at Asprey’s, a New Bond Street shop which supplies gems to the Royal Family, as the busy West End district was filling with morning shoppers.
They reversed the truck toward the shop, smashing its window with a girder projecting from the back of the vehicle.
Police said the thieves sprayed ammonia in the face of a security guard and escaped with the necklace in a car later found abandoned nearby.
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